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Best known by the stage name of
Toro y Moi,
Chaz Bundick is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who first attracted national attention in 2010 and is often associated with the rise of the chillwave movement. A native of Columbia, South Carolina,
Bundick played in indie rock bands throughout his youth, eventually gaining some recognition for his more electronic sample-based solo work during his college days at the University of South Carolina. He was signed to
Carpark Records in 2009 under the name
Toro y Moi and released his debut LP,
Causers of This, the following year. Over the next few years he would release two more releases as
Toro y Moi, building a reputation for his versatile and experimental take on pop, hip-hop, R&B, and electronic music.
Bundick made his first diversion from the
Toro y Moi banner in 2014, releasing an album called
Michael under the name
Les Sins; however, he returned to his better-known moniker the following year to release
What For? Featuring a more guitar-based rock style,
What For? charted at number 123 on the Billboard Top 200 upon its April 2015 release. A collaborative mixtape called Samantha was self-released in August of that year.
Live from Trona, a concert album performed to no audience in the middle of the California desert, was released in 2016 and marked
Bundick's first collaboration with the identical-twin jazz duo
the Mattson 2. The
Mattson brothers, Jared and Jonathan, again joined
Bundick the following year and the trio released an album of retro-psychedelic music called Chaz Bundick Meets the Mattson 2. ~ Timothy Monger